SOFAS & STUFF LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-14 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-31
Watchouts
Cash
£1M
+19.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£4M
+6% vs 2023
Employees
203
+4.1% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£373K
-59% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
3-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | £25,959,848 | £25,043,875 | |
| Operating profit | — | £966,337 | £355,537 | |
| Profit before tax | — | £909,581 | £372,510 | |
| Net profit | — | £676,487 | £285,678 | |
| Cash | — | £1,065,768 | £1,269,340 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | £4,504,314 | £4,724,598 | |
| Net assets | — | £3,662,350 | £3,883,028 | |
| Equity | £4,063,967 | £3,662,350 | £3,883,028 | |
| Average employees | — | 195 | 203 | |
| Wages | — | £7,494,441 | £7,879,700 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | £817,073 | £811,844 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
-3.5%
£25,959,848 £25,043,875
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Cash
+19.1%
£1,065,768 £1,269,340
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Net assets
+6%
£3,662,350 £3,883,028
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Employees
+4.1%
195 203
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Operating profit
-63.2%
£966,337 £355,537
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Profit before tax
-59%
£909,581 £372,510
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Wages
+5.1%
£7,494,441 £7,879,700
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2022-12-31 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | 3.7% | 1.4% | |
| Net margin | — | 2.6% | 1.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | 21.5% | 7.5% | |
| Current ratio | — | 1.04x | 1.07x | |
| Interest cover | — | 42.24x | 146.13x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- PKF Francis Clark
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. The Group has made a profit of £285,678 for the year ended 31 December 2024 (2023: profit of £676,487) and is in a net asset position of £3,883,028 (2023: £3,662,350). The directors have reviewed the Group's forecast and projections for 2025 including assumptions concerning forecast sales, capital expenditure and expenditure commitments and their impact on cash flows, and have a reasonable expectation that the Group has adequate financial resources to continue its operations for the foreseeable future. The Directors are closely monitoring the impact of the cost of living crisis on the Group's performance and its ability to continue as a going concern. To date, indicators are that performance be strong and with the measures that management have put in place the Directors judge that the Group will continue to operate as a going concern.”
Group structure
- SOFAS & STUFF LIMITED · parent
- Sofa Partners (Gloucestershire) Ltd 100%
- Sofa Partners (Hampshire) Limited 50%
- Sofa Partners (Hertfordshire) Ltd 100%
- Sofa Partners (Kent) Ltd 50%
- Sofa Partners (Lancashire) Limited 100%
- Sofa Partners (Lothian) Ltd 100%
- Sofa Partners (Redbrick) Ltd 50%
- Sofa Partners (Yorkshire) Ltd 50%
- Sofa Partners Limited 50%
Significant events
- “2024 in many respects was an outlier year for Sofas & Stuff, profits wise, coming as it did during the slow down in consumer spending and coinciding with the final year of substantial losses in our recently set up manufacturing division.”
- “This year saw the opening of two very important, but different types of store, for the group. The Kings Road flagship store opened in the spring, bringing our unique "Choice not Compromise" offer to central London for the first time.”
- “The second store in Bruton in Somerset, saw the group experimenting with a far smaller store footprint.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
6 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WHITLEY, Edward Thomas | Secretary | 2023-03-21 | — | — |
| CUSSINS, Andrew James | Director | 2012-03-05 | Aug 1957 | British |
| CUSSINS, Benjamin Michael | Director | 2014-07-16 | Aug 1975 | British |
| CUSSINS, George Arthur | Director | 2024-04-22 | Sep 1992 | British |
| CUSSINS, Julia Helen | Director | 2014-07-16 | Mar 1958 | British |
| CUSSINS, Samuel Joseph | Director | 2024-04-22 | Feb 1989 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOWE, David Bruce | Secretary | 2009-07-14 | 2012-02-06 |
| ADDISON, David | Director | 2017-03-24 | 2018-11-05 |
| CRAMSIE, Marcus James Lendrum | Director | 2014-06-04 | 2016-07-25 |
| CUSSINS, Andrew James | Director | 2009-08-12 | 2012-03-05 |
| LOWE, David Bruce | Director | 2009-07-14 | 2012-02-06 |
| SUTTON, Michael James | Director | 2009-12-14 | 2013-09-26 |
| WHITLEY, Edward Thomas | Director | 2012-04-24 | 2016-07-25 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Andrew James Cussins | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-11-20 |
| Mr Edward Thomas Whitley | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 95 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-08-06 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-08-06 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2025-08-04 CC04 Statement of companys objects
- 2024-05-10 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-27 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-10-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-08-06 | SH10 | capital | Capital variation of rights attached to shares | |
| 2025-08-06 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-08-06 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-08-04 | CC04 | change-of-constitution | Statement of companys objects | |
| 2024-11-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-09-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-05-10 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-05-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-05-07 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2023-11-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-10-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-03-22 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2022-10-31 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2021-11-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-08-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 1
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.